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Turbine installation at the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator commenced in May 2018, with the first MHI Vestas V164-8.0 MW (uprated to 8.3 MW) installed on its self-installing gravity-base foundation approximately 6.5 km off the Northumberland coast. The campaign installed five V164 units across the demonstrator's three arrays; the project was fully commissioned on 22 June 2018, confirming completion of all five turbine erections within a tight window. Month precision used as the exact day-precision first-turbine date is not pinned in publicly available sources; the offshorewind.biz 28 May 2018 "MHI Vestas Marks V164 Turbine Milestone" report places the first installation in that window.